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Almost always that is **Main navigation**, the menu across the top, or one of the two footer menus, **Footer** and **Footer bottom**. The screen lists the links in the order visitors see them, with three columns. Column What it shows Menu link The wording a visitor reads. Child links sit indented under their parent. Enabled Whether the link is showing. Untick to hide it without deleting it. Operations Only **Edit** shows. Press the arrow next to it to reach **Add child**, **Delete** and **View**. ![The Edit menu screen for Main navigation, with the Show row weights link and the Menu link, Enabled and Operations columns outlined in red.](/storage/kn35wx2sLVKcxFPkSpAz1CJJod88FU7zLnTMyn34.png) The **Operations** column looks like a single **Edit** button. The arrow beside it is easy to miss, and it is where the other three live. ![The arrow beside the Edit button on a Main navigation row, opened and outlined in red to show Add child, Delete and View.](/storage/oI68MOVeAv98im3GtP1d4MBsLsCkA8XKdKHCroB9.png) --- Adding a link ------------- 1. Press **Add link** at the top right of the menu screen. 2. Fill in the **Menu link title**, which is the wording visitors read. 3. Put the address in **Link**. Start typing a page title and the field will offer matches, so you rarely need to type an address by hand. 4. Leave **Parent link** alone to put the link at the top level, or choose the link it should sit under. 5. Press **Save**. > **💡 Note:** There is a second route to the same form. The arrow beside a row's **Edit** button offers **Add child**, which opens **Add menu link** with **Parent link** already set to that row. > **💡 Tip:** Linking by title rather than by address means the link follows the page if its address later changes. It is the safer habit. --- Adding a page from its editing form ----------------------------------- You can also put a page into **Main navigation** while you are editing it, without leaving the page. 1. Open **Menu settings** in the right-hand column of the editing form. 2. Switch on **Provide a menu link**. 3. Check the **Menu link title**, which is the wording visitors read. 4. Choose the **Parent link** it should sit under, or leave it at **<Main navigation>** for the top level. 5. Save the page. ![The Menu settings section on a new landing page, outlined in red, with Provide a menu link switched on and the Menu link title, Description, Parent link and Weight fields.](/storage/W0lvpGfc4NXtrnUzGavlAaK4pDFi6Usb3GeCKPCk.png) > **💡 Note:** Only **Main navigation** is offered here. Links in the footer menus are added from **Structure**, then **Menus**. On a landing page, the parent you choose also sets the start of its address. See [**Page addresses**](/articles/page-addresses). --- Changing the order ------------------ Drag a link by its handle to move it up, down, or under another link to make it a child. The order on this screen is the order visitors see. If dragging is awkward, press **Show row weights** above the table. A **Weight** column appears and you can set the order as numbers instead. It is hidden until you press it, and the link then reads **Hide row weights**. Weights change the order only. To move a link under a different parent without dragging, open its **Edit** form and change **Parent link** there. > **⚠️ Important:** Nothing you drag or untick is kept until you press **Save** at the foot of the screen. Leaving the page first loses the lot. --- Hiding and removing ------------------- - To take a link down for a while, untick **Enabled** and save. The link stops showing and everything about it is kept. - To remove it for good, press the arrow beside **Edit** and choose **Delete**. This removes the link only. The page it pointed at is untouched. Related articles ------------------ - [ How people navigate your site → ](/articles/how-people-navigate-your-site) - [ Page addresses → ](/articles/page-addresses) - [ Redirects and broken links → ](/articles/redirects-and-broken-links) Was this article helpful? ------------------------- Your feedback helps us prioritise what to rewrite. Yes No [ Back to Navigation & site search ](/articles?category=12) On this page **Need additional help?** Submit a support request through the [**support portal** ](https://doghouse.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals)or email © 2026 [Doghouse SaaS](https://doghouse.agency) [Glossary](/articles/glossary)